Leadership Lessons Quotes

#1. I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#2. One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

Mario Batali

#3. If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.

Tim Kirkland

#4. By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place.

Miya Yamanouchi

#5. Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Confidence confers on you the courage to conquer challenges.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#7. The experience of the expert is an advantage to them only for as long as it enables them to learn faster than the novice

Agona Apell

#8. The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change ...

Malcolm Fraser

#9. I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.

Braden Pedersen

#10. Life is short. Clarifying your purpose may be the biggest time-saver in your life's work.

Jon Mertz

#11. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

Jack Canfield

#12. TAKE' nothing for granted..The 'GIVE' may be expensive!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#13. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.

Lolly Daskal

#14. A beacon of light shining in a dark tunnel leads even the blind to safety

Wogu Donald

#15. One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way.

Jim Yong Kim

#16. In life you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Krishna Sagar

#17. Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#18. You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers

Agona Apell

#19. I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.

Oliver Thomas

#20. And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

#21. Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#22. Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.

Noel DeJesus

#23. anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#24. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#25. And when the lessons 'appear'..
The 'intensity and clarity' is jaw dropping..!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#26. Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#27. Take care of your people is one of the principle lessons of military leadership. If we take care of our people on deployment, why should that change when we come home?

Eric Greitens

#28. You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it.

Nikki Rowe

#29. TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely

Fela Durotoye

#30. Leaders: Your job in the future is to create a space where others feel save being vulnerable. Where fears and failures are openly discussed and used as lessons moving forward.

Bill Jensen

#31. The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

Rocky Bleier

#32. Between Practicality and Spirituality lies Rationality!
And when the lessons 'appear', the 'intensity and clarity' can be jaw dropping !

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#33. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.

Lolly Daskal

#34. Make a difference, change the game for the better, leave a legacy, be a guide that someone else can follow and make better, and then someone else will follow that and make that better.

Carlos Wallace

#35. I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities.

Omarosa Manigault

#36. Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

Warren G. Bennis

#37. Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.

Ron Suskind

#38. Fortune crowns the bold before the worthy

Agona Apell

#39. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha